3. What does Jerome notice about Bix's shoes?
(a) The shoe laces are from tennis shoes.
(b) They are terribly scuffed.
(c) They are well shined.
(d) They have holes in them.

4. What makes Jerome nervous as he is headed towards his favorite court?
(a) The path is dark.
(b) He is afraid of encountering some KKK members.
(c) He is afraid of losing his way in the dark.
(d) He does not know if those drug dealers he saw before will be there.

5. What is Bix doing in the corner of the Home Economics room?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Talking on his cell phone.
(c) Eating pie.
(d) Cutting himself.

6. What is Bix's challenge about?
(a) Jerome's need to define everything in words.
(b) Jerome needing to pin down parentage.
(c) Jerome being more obsessed about skin color than Bix.
(d) Jerome not getting on the team the year before.

7. How is Jerome's question about what they are to make received by the girls?
(a) The girls think Jerome has a valid point.
(b) The female students are glad he brings up some valid points.
(c) The girls ignore Jerome.
(d) The female students are shocked at his boldness.

8. Why can Jerome use his secluded basketball court now?
(a) It is summer and the days are longer so there's light longer.
(b) His brother is going with him in the family car and using the headlights for Jerome to play.
(c) The city has installed lights on the court.
(d) The lantern gives him light to play and to walk home.

9. What does Jerome's mother say to Bix privately?
(a) Jerome does not know.
(b) To stop thinking the world is against him.
(c) To be kind to Bix's mother.
(d) To be kind to Jerome who is still an innocent.

10. What does Jerome realize as he watches Bix's stepfather warm up?
(a) Bix will have a very hard time winning.
(b) The stepfather has not played that much basketball.
(c) Bix will easily win.
(d) The stepfather is a dominating man.

11. What does Jerome ask the Home Economics teacher?
(a) Why they are making fake food?
(b) If they can make peach pie instead of cherry pie.
(c) Why they are making desserts when they haven't made a main course.
(d) If they can make chocolate cake instead.

12. What does Jerome's momma realize that Jerome's been neglecting?
(a) His academic courses.
(b) His music.
(c) His basketball.
(d) His grandparents.

13. About what does Jerome taunt Bix?
(a) Bix's suggesting to Jerome the same thing about baseball.
(b) Bix's mother's behavior at a baseball game.
(c) Bix's statement to some boys at school.
(d) Bix's behavior in Home Economics class.

14. Who wins the anonymous contest Miss Pimton sets up?
(a) Bix and Jerome.
(b) It's a three-way tie.
(c) Mollie and Anne.
(d) It's a two-way tie.

15. What does Jerome's mother encourage all three of her sons to do?
(a) Have a party to have some fun.
(b) Get back to their old routines.
(c) Talk more with their dad.
(d) Stay home from school for a week and spend time with her.